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JEWISH UlEiHLV
Educators Decry Racial Prejudice;
Quotas In U.S. Colleges At Conference
Declaring that all students should be judged on the basis of their own merits, Dr.
Mildred McAfee Horton, Wellesley College President, decried race prejudice in American col-
leges and other speakers attacked the quota systems ascribed to many institutions as a con-
ference sponsored by the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston under the direc-
tion of the Council's executive director, Robert E. Segal, last Sunday afternoon in the Hotel
Statler.
Serving Brooklme. Brighton, Newton and Altnton
Chestnut Hill, Belmont, Watertown, Wellesley
Vol. II No. 12
November 14, 1946
"American educators must rec-
ognize the existence of prejudice
and establish conditions within
which it will not flourish and with-
in which it will die," Mrs. Horton
declared.
The method of handling racial
problems must be left to Univer-
sity officials to lest and work over
Price 5 Cents in "laboratories" set up at their
own discretion was Mrs. Horion's
theory for the erasure of such pre-
judice discrimination.
Mrs, Horton added further t'-at
"the superior intelligence of Jew-
ish candidates for admission into
colleges and universities has mili-
tated against them, lest they show
up many of the other students."
Dr. John Desmond, state com
missioner of education, like Mrs.
Horton, did not mention the quota
system nor the exclusion of Jews
from colleges but declared that
freedom of educational opportunity
was menaced by discrimination.
Dr. Desmond stressed the fact that
legislation was needed "to maka
this situation democratic."
Continued on Page Twelve
Hadassah Conclave Ends Today
Entertainers Toss Verbal
Punches In Dialect Melee
By MIKE SHULMAN
The dialect controversy, originally stirred up by Groucho Marx, swished into its second
round as vigorous support and firm denunciations of the comedian's comment billowed forth
from leading entertainers and humorists.
Garrulous Groucho recently
charged that comedians using dia-
lect to pull laughs from audiences
injure the minorities involved in
the dialogue.
In the opening round Groucho's
opposition included Fred Allen's
"Mrs. Nussbaum," ,.Harry Parks,
Who features the Greek character
"Parkyakarkus," and composer
Harry Ruby.
A newly-gained pro-Marx be-
liever is Songman Har�y Richman.
He declared that "Groucho is one
million per cent correct.
"Although I never use jokes,
since I try to entertain my audi-
ence by singing, I don't believe
that dialect jokes are at all prop-
er in cafes or night clubs.
"Of course, on the stage, it all
depends under what conditions
dialect is used. I feel that it is
all right in legitimate stage shows
but I don't like to see a joke made
out of a dialect."
Another Groucho backer in the
controversy is Minstrel Man Benny
Fields, who agrees 100 per cent
with the Hollywood funnyman.
"Big-name comedians use ab-
solute ridicule when employing
dialed." Fields declared. "Fred
Allen is alone because he handles
it so deftly.
The main trouble is that the
minorities seem to be the ones who
6et the biggest kick out of dialect
comics,'' he added. "I've got one of
the greatest collection of dialect
stories but I rarely use them unless
the occasion is just right."
Author Rex Stout, famous liberal
writer, also joined the Marx band-
wagon.
� In the good old days when the
unregulated patent medicine
racket killed a lot of people every
year, the strongest opponents of
regulation were the medicine
mongers�the men (and women)
who were getting rich from the
Continued on Page Twelve
"As We Were Saying..."
Voices From The Southland
To Cheer Us In The Darkness
By ROBERT E. SEGAL
When fascism comes to America, it will come, of course, as
that shrewd kingfish of a fellow, Huey Long, observed, in the
guise of 200% Americanism. And that's why a fellow can't get
too excited about Columbians, Inc., the new
Atlanta group.
For the Columbian boys, with the flying
wedge tactics, wear their insignia of hatred
upon their sleeves and proclaim boldly their
doctrine of hatred- Fascism isn't going to
spring full-blown into uniform that way in this
nation; it will" have to be a long time in the
incubator- And the Columbians are all too
plain-spoken and dire<$� to make much head-
way.
Nonetheless, their presence in Dixieland
SEGAL is one more dirty bubble in the barometer.
And one more challenge to all of us to search out the rorces of
decency in the South, where the battle will be won or lost.
In that connection, Georgia's Governor Ellis Arnall, in a re-
cent letter to Victor Riesel, New York Post columnist, offered a
helpful observation: Continued on Page Three
Locker Opposes Russia's
UN Trusteeship Proposal
Finale to five days of intensive discussions and reports at
the 32nd annual Hadassah convention here in Boston in an
"all-out fight to mobilize American opinion against Britain's
throttling- tactics in Palestine," will come at 10 o'clock this
morning when representatives of 750 chapters in 47 states
elect officers for the coming year at a final brunch meeting'
in the Grand Ballroom of the Copley Plaza Hotel.
Unequivocal opposition to Rus-
sia's proposal of a United Nations
Trusteeship for Palestine was
voiced by Berl Locker, head of the
London office of the Jewish
Agency, Tuesday evening.
"The Jews want no mandate and
no trusteeship over the Holy
Land,'' Locker stated. "They con-
sider it to be their own country
and they are determined that it
shall be a Jewish state. Our minds
are fixed on one thing and one
thing only � to have the fate of
our own people in our own hands.
"For this only one thing will do:
a Jewish state in Palestine im-
mediately."
The impact of the convention's
opening shot was felt by a jam-
packed Symphony Hall audience
last Sunday evening when David
Ben-Gurion, chairman of the Jew-
ish Agency Executive, accused
Great Britain of turning Palestine
"into a police state without paral-
lel in the entire civilized world,
where every policeman can insult,
beat and loot every Jew in the
country."
Mr. Ben-Gurion who made his
first speech since his arrival in
this country at the meeting, reject-
Continued on Page Two
Election Highlights
By JACK B. STRAUSS
"Jewish Vote"
There were several developments
in last week's elections which are
worthy of attention and study.
In the two predominantly Jewish
wards in Boston, Ward 14 and
Ward 12, Dorchester and Roxbury
respectively, the voters showed
their customary independence by
splitting their tickets in the Sena-
torial and Gubernatorial fights.
Research Organization Sets Goal
Of 1,000 Patron Members At Meeting
First official organizational meet-
ing of the Patrons of Research of
Beth Israel Hospital to further re-
search programs in curing and
prevention of diseases, was held last
Thursday evening at the Hospital
where it was revealed that 102 men
had become Patron members at a
cost of $250 each, Edward N
Marcus president and the Board
of Trustees announced.
At the meeting, officers and mem-
bers of the Board felt that the
Continued on Page Four
American Jewish Committee To
Hear Judge Proskauer Sunday
Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, lawyer and jurist and Presi-
dent of the American Jewish Committee, will be the guest of
the Greater Boston Chapter of the Committee at a dinner meet-
ing in the Ballroom of the Copley Plaza Hotel next Sunday
evening.
The Special Committee appointed
by Chairman Herbert B. Ehrmann
for this event numbers over 100 of
the leaders of local Jewry Mr. A.
M. Sonnabend is Chairman), of that
Committee.
Judge Proskauer will consider
the most urgent problems of world
Jewry and will discuss particularly
activities of the Committee during
the past few months dealing with
the issues of Palestine, Immigra-
tion, Rehabilitation of some Euro-
pean Jewish Communities and the
Problems of Morale of Jews here
and abroad. .
Judge Proskauer was President
of the 92nd Street Young Men's
Hebrew Association, the oldest or-
ganization of its kind in the coun-
try. From 1931 to 1934, he was
Continued on Page Twelve
EDWARD N. MARCUS
They did, however, follow the
general trend of the city vote in
both contests. While they gave
Democrat Tobin 57 percent of their
vote, the city voted for Tobin 52
percent. And in the case of Repub-
lican Lodge, he gained 53 percent
of the city vote and 59 percent of
the votes in Wards 13 and 14.
These statistics clearly establish,
not only that the Jewish voter is
independent, but that there is no
such thing as a "Jewish vote."
� Labor Vote
Just as there is no "Jewish vote,"
so is there no "labor vote."
This was clearly shown by the
tremendous crushing of the C.I.O.
PAC candidates in the industrial
states of Massachusetts, Pennsyl*
vania, California, Michigan, Ohio,
Washington, and Wisconsin. In
West Virginia, where John L.
Lewis poured all his efforts to
defeat liberal Senator Harley Kil-
gore. Kilgore was reelected. The
results prove again that labor
leaders can not deliver the votes
of their union rank and filers.
* * *
U. S. Senate
Although an off-hand glance at
j the voting results might indicate
a slaughter of liberals, the make-up
of the United States Senate may
prove as palatable to progressives
and anti-isolationists as the last
assemblage. Although seven liberal
senators were defeated, five new
progressive senators have been
elected.
Guffey, Dem. of Pennsylvania;
Mead, Dem. from New York, Tun-
nell, Dem. of Delaware, Briggs,
Dem. of Missouri, Taylor Dem. of
Idaho, Mitchell, Dem. of Washing-
^ Continued on Page Twelve

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GIVE!
Boston, Mass.
Permit No. 50082
S�c. 562, P. L ft R,
U. S. POSTAGE
PAID
:> .
JEWISH UlEiHLV
Educators Decry Racial Prejudice;
Quotas In U.S. Colleges At Conference
Declaring that all students should be judged on the basis of their own merits, Dr.
Mildred McAfee Horton, Wellesley College President, decried race prejudice in American col-
leges and other speakers attacked the quota systems ascribed to many institutions as a con-
ference sponsored by the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston under the direc-
tion of the Council's executive director, Robert E. Segal, last Sunday afternoon in the Hotel
Statler.
Serving Brooklme. Brighton, Newton and Altnton
Chestnut Hill, Belmont, Watertown, Wellesley
Vol. II No. 12
November 14, 1946
"American educators must rec-
ognize the existence of prejudice
and establish conditions within
which it will not flourish and with-
in which it will die," Mrs. Horton
declared.
The method of handling racial
problems must be left to Univer-
sity officials to lest and work over
Price 5 Cents in "laboratories" set up at their
own discretion was Mrs. Horion's
theory for the erasure of such pre-
judice discrimination.
Mrs, Horton added further t'-at
"the superior intelligence of Jew-
ish candidates for admission into
colleges and universities has mili-
tated against them, lest they show
up many of the other students."
Dr. John Desmond, state com
missioner of education, like Mrs.
Horton, did not mention the quota
system nor the exclusion of Jews
from colleges but declared that
freedom of educational opportunity
was menaced by discrimination.
Dr. Desmond stressed the fact that
legislation was needed "to maka
this situation democratic."
Continued on Page Twelve
Hadassah Conclave Ends Today
Entertainers Toss Verbal
Punches In Dialect Melee
By MIKE SHULMAN
The dialect controversy, originally stirred up by Groucho Marx, swished into its second
round as vigorous support and firm denunciations of the comedian's comment billowed forth
from leading entertainers and humorists.
Garrulous Groucho recently
charged that comedians using dia-
lect to pull laughs from audiences
injure the minorities involved in
the dialogue.
In the opening round Groucho's
opposition included Fred Allen's
"Mrs. Nussbaum," ,.Harry Parks,
Who features the Greek character
"Parkyakarkus," and composer
Harry Ruby.
A newly-gained pro-Marx be-
liever is Songman Har�y Richman.
He declared that "Groucho is one
million per cent correct.
"Although I never use jokes,
since I try to entertain my audi-
ence by singing, I don't believe
that dialect jokes are at all prop-
er in cafes or night clubs.
"Of course, on the stage, it all
depends under what conditions
dialect is used. I feel that it is
all right in legitimate stage shows
but I don't like to see a joke made
out of a dialect."
Another Groucho backer in the
controversy is Minstrel Man Benny
Fields, who agrees 100 per cent
with the Hollywood funnyman.
"Big-name comedians use ab-
solute ridicule when employing
dialed." Fields declared. "Fred
Allen is alone because he handles
it so deftly.
The main trouble is that the
minorities seem to be the ones who
6et the biggest kick out of dialect
comics,'' he added. "I've got one of
the greatest collection of dialect
stories but I rarely use them unless
the occasion is just right."
Author Rex Stout, famous liberal
writer, also joined the Marx band-
wagon.
� In the good old days when the
unregulated patent medicine
racket killed a lot of people every
year, the strongest opponents of
regulation were the medicine
mongers�the men (and women)
who were getting rich from the
Continued on Page Twelve
"As We Were Saying..."
Voices From The Southland
To Cheer Us In The Darkness
By ROBERT E. SEGAL
When fascism comes to America, it will come, of course, as
that shrewd kingfish of a fellow, Huey Long, observed, in the
guise of 200% Americanism. And that's why a fellow can't get
too excited about Columbians, Inc., the new
Atlanta group.
For the Columbian boys, with the flying
wedge tactics, wear their insignia of hatred
upon their sleeves and proclaim boldly their
doctrine of hatred- Fascism isn't going to
spring full-blown into uniform that way in this
nation; it will" have to be a long time in the
incubator- And the Columbians are all too
plain-spoken and dire